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The Sporting Lover

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Country
  
United States

Director
  
Alan Hale

Language
  
Silent

Release date
  
1926

Based on
  
play Good Luck by Ian Hay

Writer
  
Seymour Hicks (play), Ian Hay (play), Carey Wilson (adaptation), Malcolm Stuart Boylan (titles)

The Sporting Lover is a 1926 American sports romance film directed by Alan Hale and starring Conway Tearle, Barbara Bedford and Ward Crane. It was based on the British play Good Luck by Ian Hay.

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Plot

During the First World War an American officer and a British aristocrat fall in love but are separated. After the war he returns to find her engaged to another man. The issue is settled by a bet on The Derby horse race.

Cast

  • Conway Tearle - Captain Terrance Connaughton
  • Barbara Bedford - Lady Gwendolyn
  • Ward Crane - Captain Sir Phillip Barton
  • Arthur Rankin - Algernon Cravens
  • Charles McHugh - Paddy O'Brien - Connaughton's Servant
  • Johnny Fox - Aloysius Patrick O'Brien - Paddy's Son
  • Bodil Rosing - Nora O'Brien
  • George Ovey - Jockey

    • References

    The Sporting Lover Wikipedia
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    The Sporting Lover IMDb